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Or your desk. Or shelf full of stuff you don't need: miniature dollshouse videogame setups. Gorgeous! Choose from the (sort of, it's not the one I had) Sega Megadrive setup..
.. or the Famicom home tangle. Or tabletop arcades:
... Sega arcades (and toycatcher), or the light-up fully working no-brand home TV entertainment system. Who knew dollshouses had electrics? I'm quite tempted to build one.
1. Get into Guild Wars. It's on my shelf, I've been putting it off for too long (damn you, WoW!), and Brinstar's love of the game is infectious. How does it work, are there servers? Anyone got any recommendations?
2. Get Animal Crossing for DS without dropping too much Mario Kart practice. Curiously, Wonderland is (currently) topgoogleUK for 'mario kart friend code' so there's a thread going nuts over here; shame I'm crap at MKDS ;).
3. Go to yoga class instead of paying the gym membership but playing WoW instead.
4. Get back into FPSes properly. Will tinker with a Quake 4 cfg; I miss Capture The Flag something rotten.
5. Make a gaming wardrobe for Stortroopers. Plus another wardrobe, although I haven't quite decided what yet. Haute Couture? D&D? ... D&D Couture?
6. Get a full sized Blythe doll.
7. Learn to cook many and various soups, but mostly involving pumpkin and squash. Yum! Plus space-invader shaped croutons.
Seven is enough, isn't it?
David Braben, UK legend, creator of Elite, on the future of games and artistic potential. He ends on an inspiring note:
Our golden age has not yet started but the door is open, and somewhere are the Welles and Hitchcocks of the future. They may even be reading this piece right now.
We won't see much of this stuff ,I doubt, in the early days of next-gen machines: developers aren't familiar with the machinery yet. Remember what PS2 games looked like when the PS2 first came out, compared to what devs can squeeze out of the hardware now? The next-gen games will begin to come into their own in around 2009, I'm reckoning, by which point the PS2 will be as laughably old as the PSOne is now.
Will this be when the 'golden age' starts? Videogames, unlike film and television, still have room to evolve significantly. Exciting times...
My Dreamcast wandered off in a relationship breakup. I'm tempted to buy a new one, seeing as there are still new games coming out!
This is a helicopter shootemup, currently in Japanese arcades. Details here.
This is stupid and annoying news:
IT Media has announced some details on the Blu-Ray region coding and it holds a nice surprise [FOR AMERICANS]. Japan, North America, and East Asia will all be sharing one region code. This potentially means that American gamers will be able to import Japanese PS3 Blu-Ray games, and will definitely be able to import Japanese Blu-Ray Anime/Movie titles without any hassle. Europe unfortunately will be sharing a region code with Africa so likely not much cross-gaming there.'
Rotten boring.
NCS Shop has these completely hilarious product descriptions up for these new (? they say new but I'm sure I've seen them before) Mario and Goomba mice:
* Goomba's ziggurat-shaped head is fairly sharp to the touch but would be useful if your fingers are ever itchy and need to be scratched.
Wahaha! And:
* The click sound that each mouse gives off is of the satisfying micro-switch type instead of the flat, padded thud of some mice.
Well I'm sold.
"Not for fat blokes", say the wayoftherodenters. 
They're also crap at Tetris ;)
Get yours here.
Some people are just too artistic for this world. This custom Link doll
is an amazing exercise in attention to detail, and as a lovingly
crafted Christmas pressie, the recipient must have been just delighted
with it. Awesome. I want one, and I don't even like dolls.
In the Eve Online store we find an enthusiastically-presented selection of ladies tees in several motifs, one featuring the Quafe logo:
What better message to display prominently on the chest of a tight-fitting t-shirt than that which instills lolling tongues in all that see?
Errr, OK! Limited edition, this one - pounce if need.
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